Free University of Brussels
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The Université libre de Bruxelles (English: Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a
French -speaking
research university in
Brussels ,
Belgium . ULB is one of the two institutions tracing their origins to the
Free University of Brussels , founded in 1834 by the lawyer and
liberal politician
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen .
The split occurred along linguistic lines, forming the French-speaking ULB in 1969, and Dutch -speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1970. One of the leading Belgian universities open to Europe and the world, the ULB now has about 24,200 students, 33% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.campuses : the Solbosch campus, on the territories of the City of Brussels and Ixelles municipalities in the Brussels-Capital Region , the Plaine campus in Ixelles, and the Erasmus campus in Anderlecht , beside the Erasmus Hospital .Solbosch , which hosts the administration and general services of the university. It also includes most of the faculties of the humanities, the École polytechnique , the large library of social sciences, and among the museums of the ULB, the Museum of Zoology and Anthropology, the Allende exhibition room and the Michel de Ghelderode Museum-Library.Plaine campus hosts the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Pharmacy. There are also the Experimentariums of physics and chemistry, the Museum of Medicinal Plants and Pharmacy and student housing. This site is served by Delta station .
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management © Cockbje/cc-by-sa-4.0
The
Erasmus campus houses the
Erasmus Hospital and the
Pôle Santé , the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Public Health and the Faculty of Motor Sciences. There is also the School of Nursing (with the Haute école libre de Bruxelles – Ilya Prigogine), the Museum of Medicine and the Museum of Human Anatomy and Embryology. This site is served by
Erasme/Erasmus metro station .
The university also has buildings and activities in the Brussels municipality of
Auderghem , and outside of Brussels, in
Charleroi on the
Aéropole Science Park and
Nivelles .
At the heart of the Free University of Brussels there are at least 2000 PhD students and around 3600 researchers and lecturers who work around different scientific fields and produce cutting-edge research. The projects of these scientists span thematics that concern exact, applied and human sciences and researchers at the heart of the ULB have been awarded numerous international awards and recognitions. The research carried out at the ULB is financed by different bodies such as the European Research Council, the Walloon Region, the Brussels Capital Region, the National Fund for Scientific Research, or one of the foundations that are dedicated to research at the ULB; the ULB Foundation or the Erasme Funds.
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